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...leading eligible candidate in the present Cabinet is Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a close ally of Begin's. But Shamir ranks in stature behind another Cabinet member who is not eligible for the job because he is not a member of the Knesset: Defense Minister Moshe Arens. If Begin's resignation caused a political deadlock that resulted in new elections, and Arens were to win a seat, he would stand a strong chance of emerging as leader, providing the Likud did well at the polls...
...while the Likud has two strong heirs to Begin, Labor has leadership problems. Shimon Peres, the leader since 1977, has feuded with former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the split between the two men would likely ham per the party...
...dimensions of the problem have provoked alarm within the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. At a Cabinet meeting last month, Energy Minister Yitzhak Modai charged that the situation was "catastrophic." Last week, after four days of wrangling, the Cabinet unveiled a package of austerity measures designed to reduce the $1.6 billion budget deficit. It agreed to cut spending by $526 million, mostly in defense and welfare. It also decided to raise taxes on travel and certain government benefits...
Fearful that the Israeli pullback would take the pressure off the Syrians to withdraw their forces, the Reagan Administration attempted to put the best face possible on Israel's decision. Thus the White House played host to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Washington last week. The officials were rilling in for Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who one week earlier had unexpectedly canceled his own trip to the U.S. After more than 15 hours of talks at the State Department, Arens and Shamir met briefly with Ronald Reagan to offer publicly the assurance that...
...make concessions to the rebels and particularly to the Syrians, whose aim is to re-establish themselves as a diplomatic force in the Middle East and who may not be willing to countenance Arafat's continued leadership. Arafat's troubles were also welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who described the quarreling within the P.L.O. as "good for Israel" and indeed a positive result of Israel's costly war in Lebanon. His reasoning presumably is that any step toward further radicalization of the P.L.O. would prevent the U.S. from giving tacit support to P.L.O. moderates...